Butterfly Quilt

In the process of cleaning up my quilt room way back when, I discovered several quilt tops that hadn’t been quilted yet so I am in the process of completing these.  Here is one little gem I discovered in the pile.  This is a “quilt in the round” in that it is made up as a round quilt.  I set it in a square because I really don’t have a use for a round quilt.  The butterfly motif is created using a wedge tool and while this looks like a complicated quilt, it was really quite easy.  I quilted straight lines on the butterfly wings to avoid detracting from the pattern of the fabrics and quilted butterflies in the corners which aren’t visible due to how dark the fabric is and that I used black thread for the quilting.  The quilted squiggles are meant to resemble the path a butterfly flies.  I love how the fabrics for the butterfly pop out of the dark background.

In the other photo I am showing the piping and binding.  The binding isn’t anything special; I cut it 3.5 inches wide and fold it over, stitch the raw edge it to the edge of the quilt then fold it over the edge and hand stitch the binding to the back.

The piping is a 1.5 inch wide strip folded in half with the raw edge stitched to the edge of the quilt before the binding is stitch down.  After hand stitching the binding to the back, I noticed that the piping was going to fold and “bacon” (get curvy) so I anchored it in place with a very, very small stitch placed approximately every inch.

I had this quilt stretched out on the floor for photos when my daughter walked in the house from college.  She saw the quilt and immediately said “Is that for me? or should I just say, I’m taking that?”  Guess I’ve lost yet another quilt!

I don’t have the label finished yet so I will post a final photo showing all when the label is in place and the quilt has been washed.